A few points about Palin.

I realize everyone is good and tired of hearing about her, but some of her recent comments have come to frighten me. In her interview with Charlie Gibson on 20/20, Sarah, when asked about the Bush Doctrine, first responded by asking what Charlie meant by tat phrase…. I may not be a Poly Sci major, but even little ole I know what the “Bush Doctrine” is. I know how it was first presented, in a speech, as official policy of the Bush presidency as it related to foreign policy, and how it was modified and expanded over the years. I am smart enough to realize that even if you don’t know the major policy points of every single presidency, you should at least be basically conversant with the current policy, especially if you are trying to be but a heartbeat away from having to either defend or modify that doctrine. To not know that, is excusable if you’re an average Joe, or a elementary school student, but is completely inexcusable if you’re running to be V.P. Furthermore, trying to bullshit your way through an answer that has absolutely nothing to do with the original question shows a pretty deep intellectual weakness. She also, when queried about her qualifications as an expert on Russia, stated that her state’s proximity to Russia, provides her that expertise, by this rationale, my proximity to Kansas makes me an expert on growing corn, and if I lived in texas I’d be a policy expert on South America.
Now, another small point I want to make tonight is that as a race, Blacks are probably a lot more socially conservative than most people would believe. What forms the way we end up voting is that we believe that personal morality should never be enforced as public policy. We have something of a memory of that being the case in America’s past in a way that affected us rather adversely. it’s okay to be ant-abortion, anti-immigration, anti-homosexuality from a personal point of view. Maybe YOU would never have an abortion, maybe YOU would never be homosexual, that’s fine, you don’t have to have an abortion, you don’t have to go out and have a homosexual experience. But what you do and believe should not and cannot be forced on others. Every person’s morals are personal and private, and should never spring from legislation, but from personal belief. After all, there are large segments of America that believe miscegenation is immoral, should those laws be reinstated as well?, should a official national religion be defined? and if so, which segment? Baptist, Southern Baptist, Methodist, Pentecostal, Catholic, Lutheran, AME? It’s a slippery slope and our nation, and our children would be best served if we stayed on the even path, the center road, and stayed off the deges on EITHER side.